Johann Joachim Faber (12 April 1778 in Hamburg – 2 August 1846 in Hamburg) was a

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

who was born in Hamburg. He worked originally at historical subjects, and painted the

altar-piece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

, ''Suffer Little Children to come unto Me,'' for St. Catharine's Church at Hamburg. On his journey to Italy in company with J. A. Koch and Reinhardt, he was induced to adopt landscape painting, in which line he is best known. The Berlin Gallery contains a ''View of the Capuchin Monastery, near Naples,'' by him (1830). He died in Hamburg in 1846.

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